By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was quite overcast this morning with rain falling at the very end of my watch and a starting temperature of 37 (F) 3 (C)

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Billie and 99 were not at Seneca Towers as I left for my morning watch.  I arrived downtown at 7am to a nice surprise-Beauty on the Mercury money bag (MMB) where I haven’t seen her in a very long time. I was parked on the Broad St. bridge (BSB).

Beauty was keeping an eye on her territory when she suddenly spread her wings, turned to her right and flew off to the west.

I was going to follow her when I spotted Dot.Ca (DC) on the south corner top ibeam of OCSR. I took a couple pics then drove over to Graves St. at Main St. next to Aqueduct Park. He flew off shortly after I got there heading south over the river.

I took a ride around the block down South Ave. to the BSB where I noticed DC fly up under the northeast wing of Times Square (TSB). I went to Basin St. in the hole first but his back was facing me, then he turned and I thought I would go down Exchange Blvd. parking out in front of the Blue Cross Arena (BCA) so we could see the front of him.

DC left TSB somewhere around 8am-I rode over to Fitzhugh St. to find Beauty on the south side platform railing of the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT). Soon after DC showed up on the east side railing and Beauty flew off, followed by him.

I was just about to pull away when Beauty comes flying from the north straight up Fitzhugh St. with prey in her talons. I left to look for her checking Widows Walk and the near vicinity-after coming back down and pulling into the City Hall parking lot I spotted her up on the northeast corner of City Place. Feathers were flying as I parked out on Fitzhugh St. and that’s when DC came flying in to join her.

I decided to go up to the roof of the Sister Cities parking garage hoping I would be able to see the Beautyful one better but that didn’t work, however it gave me a great view of DC as he planned his strategy for getting that food.

DC was cracking me up watching the feathers as they surrounded him and blew away. Then he saw an opening and made his first attempt at the food by sauntering over to Beauty. I could hear some vocalization and then I could see just the tips of their tails come into view on and off. I believe he did get a few bites at this time.

DC resurfaced on the east side of the corner and planned his next attack

A few minutes later he made the big move as he rushed Beauty and chased her off the roof. They spiraled down the north side of City Place as he tried taking the food out of her talons in mid air. Luckily, I was taping at the time so y’all can see it. They went out of view for a second or two then came back up into view as DC continued the chase straight down Fitzhugh St. to the north out of my field of vision. That was the last I saw of them as I had to get going. I checked points north as I left downtown to no avail. Talk about smiling-I was laughing out loud at that little show as I ended my watch when I arrived home at Seneca Towers  where I ended my watch at 9:30am! 🙂

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